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The impact of ventilation cooling towers on plus energy houses in southern Europe
journal contribution
posted on 2017-03-27, 10:25 authored by Francesco Babich, Malcolm CookMalcolm Cook, Jan Cremers, Georgios PapachristouCooling homes is often important to maintain acceptable internal comfort. This can be achieved by both active and passive solutions. This research focused on passive systems and has examined one hypothesis: that evaporative cooling towers are an important element of plus-energy houses in southern Europe. Refinements to the design of the existing ventilation tower of a Solar Decathlon House developed by the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart are proposed and tested in eight locations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain using dynamic thermal and computational fluid dynamics simulations in order to predict energy consumption, mean and peak CO2 levels, temperatures, ventilation rates, cooling potential, fresh air distribution, indoor air quality and water consumption of the evaporative cooling system implemented within the tower. Results show that a 50% reduction of the annual energy demand for space cooling to be satisfied by other systems is achieved without compromising the internal comfort.
Funding
This research was financially supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) via the London-Loughborough Centre for Doctoral Research in Energy Demand (LoLo).
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
International Journal of VentilationCitation
BABICH, F. ...et al., 2017. The impact of ventilation cooling towers on plus energy houses in southern Europe. International Journal of Ventilation, 16(4), pp. 323-344.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by Taylor & FrancisVersion
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2017-03-08Publication date
2017Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Taylor and Francis under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1473-3315eISSN
2044-4044Publisher version
Language
- en